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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (20 May 2020)

Stephen Donnelly: 169. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school (details supplied) can keep its current teacher level due to the additional pressures of Covid-19; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5691/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation Provision (20 May 2020)

Stephen Donnelly: 227. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the planned completion date for a new extension at a school (details supplied) in the context of Covid-19 disruptions. [6107/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Asylum Seekers (20 May 2020)

Stephen Donnelly: 337. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the educational supports available for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6624/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum Seekers (20 May 2020)

Stephen Donnelly: 482. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his attention has been drawn to the lack of liaison support for persons in emergency accommodation being provided to asylum seekers in a hotel (details supplied) in County Wicklow including lack of social worker and liaison for physical and mental healthcare; if the appropriate resources will deployed to the asylum seekers...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (20 May 2020)

Stephen Donnelly: 671. To ask the Minister for Health if agency staff recruited through a company (details supplied) for the Be On Call for Ireland campaign are in receipt of the same benefits as a member of the HSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5746/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Tests (20 May 2020)

Stephen Donnelly: 735. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the use of a laboratory (details supplied) for Covid-19 testing; if the HSE has reduced its planned or agreed use of the laboratory; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6192/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Tests (20 May 2020)

Stephen Donnelly: 736. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the use of laboratories here for Covid-19 testing; if the HSE has reduced its planned or agreed use of these laboratories; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6193/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Tests (20 May 2020)

Stephen Donnelly: 760. To ask the Minister for Health the position and process for retrospective testing for persons that are of the view they may have had Covid-19 prior to when testing commenced here; if this is being considered; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6395/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (20 May 2020)

Stephen Donnelly: 1365. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of and the likely delays to decisions being made in the context of local authority delays to planning permission decisions; the related timelines of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6616/20]

Covid-19 (Health): Statements (21 May 2020)

Stephen Donnelly: We heard from health officials on Tuesday that we could be dealing with Covid for years to come. In a Covid world, this is going to have a dramatic impact on our healthcare system and reduce the number of patients who can be seen. As the Secretary General said, it will cost more and take longer to do less. Hospital bed occupancy will drop from near 100% to 80%, which is the equivalent of...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Nursing Homes (26 May 2020)

Stephen Donnelly: I thank Mr. Taylor and Mr. Daly for coming and for their work in the past few months advocating on behalf of older people and residents and staff within the nursing homes. What has happened is tragic and heartbreaking. It has happened in a lot of other countries, although notably there are countries that managed to act decisively and early and avoid the outbreaks we have seen in our nursing...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Nursing Homes (26 May 2020)

Stephen Donnelly: In the interests of time, I will ask a specific question. The Minister and I have discussed the matter repeatedly in this Chamber. The answer he keeps giving me is that nursing homes and their residents and staff do not need any representation because they now have regular access to him. We are still in the middle of this crisis and are planning for a second wave. Does Mr. Daly believe...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Nursing Homes (26 May 2020)

Stephen Donnelly: I thank Mr. Daly. Does Mr. Taylor believe that, in dealing with this crisis, older people now have sufficient voice in the various fora they need to have it - politically, administratively and in the State sector?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Nursing Homes (Resumed) (26 May 2020)

Stephen Donnelly: I thank our witnesses for attending today. It seems clear given the scale of clusters, outbreaks and fatalities in nursing homes that opportunities were missed to support the nursing homes and prevent contagion into them. Various vectors into the nursing homes have been discussed today, including staff being discharged from hospitals, for example. I believe one of the reasons is that...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Nursing Homes (Resumed) (26 May 2020)

Stephen Donnelly: Given that HIQA has said the HSE has stated it does not understand the private nursing home sector, it is fair to think the Department of Health does not either as it is a further step removed. The only people on the National Public Health Emergency Team are civil servants from the Department of Health, HSE officials, a few virologists and HIQA. HIQA representatives were the only people in...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Nursing Homes (Resumed) (26 May 2020)

Stephen Donnelly: Does Mr. Quinn accept it was HIQA's role to raise the crisis with the public health officials on NPHET so they could react? This was part of why it was there.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Direct Provision Centres (26 May 2020)

Stephen Donnelly: I thank our guests for their contributions. I will focus on the current level of provision and the safeguards in place. Regarding vulnerable people, I note from Ms Buckley’s opening statement that has been deemed to be those over 65 years old rather than 70. Taking those vulnerable to Covid-19, therefore, as those people over 65 and those with underlying conditions, what is the...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Direct Provision Centres (26 May 2020)

Stephen Donnelly: That is good to hear. There was also a situation where people sharing rooms but not in the same family were deemed to be of the same household. They were asked not to interact with other households. In reality, however, there are shared bathrooms in some cases, as well as shared cooking facilities and communal areas. How is that being done in practice in light of the very tight spaces...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Direct Provision Centres (26 May 2020)

Stephen Donnelly: I specifically ask about cooking. Ms Buckley mentioned rosters. For the rest of us in Ireland there is no question that families would share each other's space in kitchens once it was properly cleaned afterwards. Is it the case that families, households or groups in rooms have to use the same cooking facilities, although it might be at different times of the day?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Direct Provision Centres (26 May 2020)

Stephen Donnelly: I thank Ms Buckley. The current public health advice for wearing masks is that people in indoor settings and reasonably close contact with others - in shops, for example - should consider wearing such masks. This does not necessarily mean medical masks but even cloth masks. Do the residents who want such masks have access to sufficient face coverings to comply with that public health...